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If you became very wealthy, would you associate with the "little people?"
Elves? Not unless I were tripping.
A million or two isn't going to get you into high society, just upper middle class social circles. It's doubtful that even $100 million would get you there, and even then you'd really need family connections.
But that being said, I don't have any friends ..... if I had friends down here in the trenches, most of them would probably be average ordinary people that I wouldn't have much in common with - people who like sports, hunting, patriotic displays, and blockbuster movies with famous stars who become a superhero and fight with dastardly villains, monsters and aliens during car chases with lots of explosions.
I simply have a different set of interests that might fit better with the upper crust. But then again, maybe not, I don't really have any experience in the matter.
Always be nice to the people you meet on the way up because they are the same people you see on the way down. True to a large degree but see it from another view - you find out who your true friends really are!
I know a handful of people who have done well for themselves, and whether young or old, are worth at least a couple million. All of those people seemed to stop talking with their former friends when they got wealthy, and instead tried to ingratiate themselves with high society.
Do you know people who do this? Would you do it?
Couple mil doesn't really separate me from the people I am close to bc even since middle school and high school I hung out with the studious hard worker type. So most of them are now professionals.
My middle school friends are now
Lawyer
Lawyer
Doctor
Accountant
Model/actress
Cal Tech PhD engineer/author/prof
High school chums (close group)
Teacher
Finance
Law
Doctor
Doctor
Doctor
Professor at major uni
Professor at major uni
Computer programmer
Architect
Accountant
Plasma physicist
Take heed, parents...the people your kids hang with can and will be a big influence.
In any case, no reason a couple mil would separate us. Or even ten mil.
If I suddenly became wealthy ,I'd keep it secret, and slowly drift into the wood work.
And if there were some one I wanted to bless, I'd find a way to do it, that could not be traced to me.
That's how I've always done it.(much as possible)
Jesus actually taught me that.
No, if I became "wealthy" I would not drop poorer friends---how ridiculous.
Indeed, when I have hung out with friends who are not as fortunate as I have been, I am happy to pick up the tab, or buy drinks for them, when I can afford it. If I'm hanging out with a truly wealthy person and they expect me to go halves with me on a big restaurant bill I would think they are nasty. If you're wealthy you should have a sense of largesse and generosity for the less-fortunate.
In Maine it is almost impossible to tell who the wealthy people are.
I found that the lakeside mansions and restored 1920s speedboats were dead give-aways.
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